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China's Mount Wutai joins World Heritage List

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The sacred Buddhist mountain of Wutai in China and Italy's Dolomite Mountains were among five new sites named Friday to UNESCO's World Heritage List.

The announcements were made on the fifth day of a meeting of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee in Seville, Spain.

The committee, which is meeting until June 30, is deciding which of 27 sites deserve to be added to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's heritage list of 881 sites that have "outstanding universal value."

UNESCO said Mount Wutai, a "sacred Buddhist mountain" in northern China that includes 53 monasteries, was named as a "cultural landscape."

It features "the Ming Dynasty Shuxiang Temple with a huge complex of 500 statues representing Buddhist stories woven into three dimensional pictures of mountains and water.

"Overall, the buildings on the site present a catalogue of the way Buddhist architecture developed and influenced palace building in China over more than one millennium."

2009-6-27 01:37 PM

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Great

2009-6-27 01:45 PM

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What was not so great was the cancellation of the city of Dresden in Germany but they had a good reason.

2009-6-27 02:01 PM

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China's Places on the UNESCO List

Date of ratification of the Convention:
Thursday, December 12, 1985

Properties inscribed on the World Heritage List

Cultural
Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains (1994)
Ancient City of Ping Yao (1997)
Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun (2000)
Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom (2004)
Classical Gardens of Suzhou (1997)
Dazu Rock Carvings (1999)
Fujian Tulou (2008)
Historic Centre of Macao (2005)
Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa (1994)
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang (1987)
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (2000)
Kaiping Diaolou and Villages (2007)
Longmen Grottoes (2000)
Lushan National Park (1996)
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (1987)
Mogao Caves (1987)
Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System (2000)
Mount Wutai (2009)
Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde (1994)
Old Town of Lijiang (1997)
Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian (1987)
Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing (1998)
Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu (1994)
Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing (1998)
The Great Wall (1987)
Yin Xu (2006)
Yungang Grottoes (2001)

Natural
Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area (1992)
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area (1992)
Mount Sanqingshan National Park (2008)
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains (2006)
South China Karst (2007)
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas (2003)
Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area (1992)

Mixed
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area (1996)
Mount Huangshan (1990)
Mount Taishan (1987)
Mount Wuyi (1999)

2009-6-27 04:59 PM

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as a chinese i feel honored and glad

2009-6-28 11:19 AM

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I also just read the news this morning. Glad to hear that.

2009-6-28 04:24 PM

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QUOTE:

Originally posted by invsnv at 2009-6-28 11:19
as a chinese i feel honored and glad

me too

2009-6-29 10:47 AM

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That is a great news for us , thus, this is mountain will get imburse and protection from UN or all humankind.
I hope more and more historic sites of China can be registered in world heritages list.

2009-6-29 11:45 AM

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QUOTE:

Originally posted by andy sun at 2009-6-29 11:45
That is a great news for us , thus, this is mountain will get imburse and protection from UN or all humankind.
I hope more and more historic sites of China can be registered in world heritages list.

hehe, yes

same wish ,

hometown folk andy

2009-6-29 12:01 PM

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chian is a beautiful country, there a many majesty mountain, for example: taishan
huashan huangshan and so on.so i am proud of being a chinese.I hope that
china is becoming increasingly stonger.

2009-6-29 03:11 PM

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Whenever I've some time I'll add some photos of China's World Heritage Sites. Today - Wudang Mountains in Hubei Province and Ancient City of Ping Yao in Shanxi Province.

Image Attachment: Wudang Mountains Hubei Province.jpg (2009-7-20 05:28 PM, 142.54 K)

Image Attachment: Ancient Dao Temple in Wudang Mountains.jpg (2009-7-20 05:28 PM, 80.33 K)

Image Attachment: Ancient City of Ping Yao - Shanxi Province.jpg (2009-7-20 05:28 PM, 65.64 K)

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Mt. Lushan Ntl. Park - Jiangxi Province

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Two more pictures of Lushan Ntl. Park - Jiangxi Province

2009-7-20 05:54 PM

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among China's World Heritage Sites, how many have you been to lol

2009-7-20 08:25 PM

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Some pictures of Shih Lin - Yunnan Province (South China Karst) and Lijiang -old town (Yunnan)

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2009-7-21 10:50 AM

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Old town of Lijian, Naxi ladies

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Mt. Yulong (Yade Dragon Snow Mountain) - Lijiang (Yunnan)

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Shihlin - about 120 km east of Kunming

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O(∩_∩)O~

beautiful

2009-7-21 11:00 AM

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Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic Area - Northern Sichuan Province

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